Bio
I am currently living my dream in Vancouver, BC in the old neighborhood known as Mount Pleasant. Finding my way here after many years of traveling, this is the seventh incarnation of my website, started in 1999. Channeled originally as "Sky Earth Tradjections", it was meant to be a tribute to my digital artwork as i embarked on the medium. To backtrack, it has always been my dream to publish a book as testimony to my original artwork. My childhood and teenage years had been filled with fantasy books, drawings, roleplaying games, skateboarding, punk rock, as well as school jazz and garage bands. In 1991, when i set off across North America following the Grateful Dead, playing guitar, saxophone, and bass in bands, i aspired to write a book of my travels, similar to "On The Road", or "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test". No words came, but many drawings ensued after a chance meeting with an American Indian on an all-night bus through Utah. Sketchbooks began to be filled with meditations, musings, medicine wheel, tarot and astrological symbology in ink in books that i could fit in my backpack. i then started to make many collages with old drawings, magazines, phocopies, photos, gold leaf, pigment, with any materials that i could find.
Eventually, in the late 90's, without any digital skills, i realized that i would need to use a computer to be able to capture light and motion. Shortly after y2k, i found myself in a (then) state-of-the-art video streaming web studio and learned the skills necessary to convert my sound and light to digital and took off in the digital realm. i remember scanning pictures when 9-11 hit in a small cabin in the Northwest coast with no internet connection, with hopes that my book would be a reality some day.
In 2002, with the aid of a re-training grant, i launched into a desktop publishing and web design career and have used my skills as an artist to survive in a society that does not place value in art. This web site is a testimony to over 600 pieces of art, and realization of my original dream. Since, i have pursued my dreams further in travelling, visionary art, electronic music and dance culture, playing music locally and internationally as mythril across North America, and performed in Montreal, Seattle, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Vancouver, The Sunshine Coast and Islands of BC, Canada.
Most recently my visionary art was shown at summer festivals internationally and i am turning my digital energy towards producing visuals that inspire beauty and consciousness after studying 3-d animation at Vancouver Film School.
Many sincere thanks to those who have taught and encouraged me along the way.